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[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (6 children)

like China

Not been to China recently eh? Or ever.

They have free education and health care, affordable housing and government pensions. Things that taxes should be spent on instead of wars, destabilising governments you don't like, and funding genocidal maniacs.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago (1 children)

instead of wars, destabilising governments you don’t like, and funding genocidal maniacs.

Instead they're supporting Russia and Putin in the war, harass the Philippines at sea, infiltrate the government in Hong Kong and prepare to capture Taiwan.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Isn't Taiwan the country that literally jails political opponents?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago

Last time I was in China was early 00’s. From everyone I’ve kept in contact with or met since, things have only gotten much worse for them.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Wow, you’re just putting out all the propoganda pieces aren’t you. Is this your alt account from .ml?

China gets ahead by stealing IP, cutting all corners with environmental concerns, and has a ridiculously low labor rates.

Sadly the western countries allow businesses to offshore and keep those profits. Short term gain for them by helping build up the West’s biggest rival.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I generally don't believe in IP.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Manufacturing labour costs were $8.31 per hour in China last year, compared with less than $3 in places such as India, Thailand and Vietnam. - The Economist

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Yes, it’s starting to go up because all of the outsourcing to China. Now they are outsourcing to other countries. The IP theft is still rampant though.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

And they spy on every citizen they have and jail them for innocuous things or jail them for being a certain race then hide it from the world and use them as slave labor. Yeah, they’re just a utopia.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Sounds pretty much like the US. Both are pretty shitty.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

Didn't they have some of the biggest house prices to income ratios? And wasn't private tutoring out of control in there? And weren't they fighting with almost every single neighbor they have?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

affordable housing

Last time I checked they had a housing finanical crisis and companies building "tofu" housing